No Water

From upstairs I heard Stephen say, "We don't have any water." I'm thinking, "Of course, we do. There are three 5-gallon bottles sitting in our dining room." Unfortunately, that wasn't that water he was talking about!

Water from the city is sporadic at best, so our houses have cisterns which provide a backup for the house. If the city water is off, then the water pump in the cistern "pumps" water into our house.

Fast forward to the present. There's no city water and evidently our water pump has died. Bottom line . . . . no water to the house until we call our landlord and he has someone come over to repair/replace it. Thankfully, our landlord speaks English so we can communicate the problem to him without too much difficulty, if we can reach him. He is the El Salvadoran air force and isn't always in the country.

Jeff and Paula live less than 2 blocks away from us and right now they are in Texas at a mission's conference. Guess showering at their house is the back-up plan to the back up plan. In the meantime, we have plenty of water to drink!